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Week in Ideas: Christopher Shea

June 29, 2012 7:50 p.m. ET

Relationships Digital Dating Dominates

A new study quantifies how Web-driven the dating scene has become.

The authors surveyed a nationally representative group of more than 4,000 Americans. Almost all the traditional ways of meeting people are in decline: friends, school, church, neighborhood. The proportion of heterosexual couples meeting through friends, for example, dropped to below 30% in 2010 from nearly 40% in the...